HOSTEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hostel mean? 

• HOSTEL (noun)
  The noun HOSTEL has 2 senses:

1. a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

2. inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)

  Familiarity information: HOSTEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOSTEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

auberge; hostel; hostelry; inn; lodge

Hypernyms ("hostel" is a kind of...):

hotel (a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hostel"):

caravan inn; caravansary; caravanserai; khan (an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans)

imaret (a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey)

post house; posthouse (an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders)

roadhouse (an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Inexpensive supervised lodging (especially for youths on bicycling trips)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hostel; student lodging; youth hostel

Hypernyms ("hostel" is a kind of...):

housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)

 Context examples 

“This is the 'Mouton d'Or,'” said Aylward, as they pulled up their horses at a whitewashed straggling hostel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That is a village named Les Aldudes, and I know a hostel there also where the wine is of the best.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three times he shouted, but, receiving no reply, he opened an inner door and advanced into the chief guest-room of the hostel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, young man, what manner of a bird would you suppose a pied merlin to be—that being the proper sign of my hostel?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It was a good hostel, that of the 'Pied Merlin,'” he remarked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would fain stay here forever amid all these beautiful things— staring hard at the blushing Tita as he spoke—but we must be back at our lord's hostel ere he reach it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have a hostel of their own now, somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, where the landlord drinks so much of the liquor that there is little left for the customers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ma foi!” cried the bowman, passing his fingers through his curls, “you were not far from the feather-bed then, mon gar. A little more and this good hostel would have a new window.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He stopped Alleyne to ask him whether it was not true that there was a hostel somewhere in those parts which was especially famous for the stewing of eels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is a goodly hostel near the west gate, which is famed for the stewing of spiced pullets,” remarked Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)